{"id":938,"date":"2015-10-31T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gosciencekids.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2020-05-01T23:10:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:10:31","slug":"colour-changing-flowers-science-experiment-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gosciencekids.com\/colour-changing-flowers-science-experiment-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour Changing Flowers Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Color changing flowers science experiment for kids – fun nature science project for Mother’s Day, Spring (or any time of year)!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Imagine lining up at the supermarket, and you see a bunch of stark white gerbera daisies on sale for $1.66. What would you do? Me? I couldn’t not<\/em> buy them, especially since I’d been hankering to try a little colour changing nature science experiment<\/a> that would be just perfect for a bunch of white gerberas like these.<\/p>\n

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You could try this as a hands-on observation of nature activity with preschoolers<\/a>, especially if you don’t mind food colouring stains on their fingers. Kindergarteners<\/a> and older kids<\/a> might like to experiment by changing just one variable at a time to see how this impacts the results.<\/p>\n

When we did this activity, Jewel was 5 years and 5 months old, and Bumble Bee was 3 years and 1 month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Colouring or dyeing flowers is quite easy to do. It’s a fun science experiment that kids of all ages can do at home, with visible (and pretty!) results. All you need to do add food colouring and water to a vase or other receptacle and the flower will absorb the coloured water up through its stem, in a process called transpiration. (We’ll delve more into the science behind it a bit further down…)<\/p>\n

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To dye or colour flowers at home, you need:<\/h2>\n